Binary Files Import and Export
Importing binary files is always a challenge in SQL Server. New Author Sergey Benner brings us a technique using bulk loading that has worked well for him.
Disable or Drop
When you need to debug or troubleshoot, Steve Jones wants you to disable, not drop, objects.
Azure DWH part 23: Data Mining
SQL Server on-premises includes a module to create Data Mining models. We will show how to create them using ASDW.
Is This Data Science?
An analysis of salaries uses statistics to determine significance of the data. Is this data science?
Free eBook: SQL Server Internals: In-Memory OLTP
In this free ebook Kalen Delaney introduces and explains how the 2016 In-Memory OLTP engine works. The Hekaton internals knowledge offered in this book will help you migrate existing tables or databases to Hekaton, and get faster performance from your SQL Server applications than you ever thought possible.
How to Change the File Extension for a Data File
This is a fix to primary data file that is created with a different file extension or accidentally renamed to a different file extension
It's Time to Patch and Upgrade
With bugs in our CPUs, everyone needs to plan on patching or upgrading.
Nasty Fast PERCENT_RANK
Alan Burstein discusses a better performning alternative to PERCENT_RANK that works on SQL Server versions 2005+
Questions about Data Masking That You Were Too Shy to Ask
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will be in effect in May of 2018. Data masking is one technique that can help your organization comply with this and other regulations. William Brewer answers those questions about data masking that you were too shy to ask.
Blogs
Data Engineering Books Worth Having on Your Shelf (or your tablet)
Good documentation gets you started. Good books get you deep. After years of working...
SSMS Evaluation – future ready
By Vinay Thakur
In previous posts, we looked at the SQL Server engine. for us DBAs, the...
Claude.ai vs Claude API
By Arun Sirpal
You have used Claude. But which Claude? The Claude app (claude.ai, the desktop and...
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Permissions Removal When Changing Object Schema
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Question of the Day
Creating a JSON Document IV
I have this data in a table called dbo.NFLTeams
TeamID TeamName City YearEstablished ------ -------- ---- --------------- 1 Cowboys Dallas 1960 2 Eagles Philadelphia 1933 3 Packers Green Bay 1919 4 Chiefs Kansas City 1960 5 49ers San Francisco 1946 6 Broncos Denver 1960 7 Seahawks Seattle 1976 8 Patriots New England 1960If I run this code, how many rows are returned?
SELECT YearEstablished, json_objectagg(city : TeamName) FROM dbo.NFLTeams GROUP BY YearEstablished;See possible answers